Steve, Legendary Programmers At iPhone Event

The customers who waited in line overnight for the iPhone event at the Palo Alto (N. Calif.) retail store were rewarded with the appearance of Steve Jobs inside the store, and he was joined in an animated conversation with legendary Macintosh programmers Andy Hertzfeld (l.) and Bill Atkinson (r.). Atkinson joined the waiting line on Thursday evening, but it’s not clear when Hertzfeld arrived, iPhone already in hand. Both men worked for Apple in the seminal days of the Macintosh, are are generally credited with leadership in developing such programs as QuickDraw, MacPaint, HyperCard, and many of the operating system elements, such as the Control Panel and Scrapbook.